mhi has asked for the
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Fellow Monks!

In trying to verify a PGP signature and determine the Key ID of the signing key, I have been stumped by the strange format I encountered in reading out that Key ID.

Expecting to find it in the usual hex format, I instead was offered 'key_id' => 'yp▒▒▒▒▒'. To me this is especially confusing as accoring to the docs when creating a signature, you are supposed to enter the Key-ID as an 8- or 16-digit hex number.